Give Them An Argument
Give Them An Argument is a YouTube show and podcast dedicated to building a smarter, funnier and more strategic Left. New episodes are live on YouTube on Monday nights with an exclusive postgame for GTAA patrons after the main show. (To become a patron, go to patreon.com/benburgis and sign up for the monthly cost of a milkshake at a 50s nostalgia diner in 1994.) Past guests have included Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, David Pizarro, Gregory Sadler, Glenn Greenwald, Krystal Ball, Bhaskar Sunkara, S...
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Episodes (316)
Season 5 Episode 29: The Return of Freddie deBoer
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Season 5 Episode 28: Debate w/Brad Polumbo on Forgiving Student Debt
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Season 5 Episode 27: Banana Discourse + the Right's War on Egalitarian Modernity
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Season 5 Episode 26: Let's Talk About Grifters (ft. Jason Myles)
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Season 5 Episode 25: After Black Lives Matter (ft. Cedric Johnson)
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Season 5 Episode 24: Matt McManus on the Political Right & Inequality
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Season 5 Episode 23: The Return of Norman Finkelstein
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Season 5 Episode 22: The Great Peterson/Lindsay Lunacy Summit of 2023 (ft. Matt...
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Season 5 Episode 21: Mars Needs Blood Boys (ft. RM Brown, Naomi Karavani & Miche...
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GTAA Season 5 Episode 20: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (ft. Will Arbery)
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GTAA/TiR/LR NYC Live Show ft. Bhaskar Sunkara, Emma Vigeland & Sam Seder (Unlock...
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GTAA Season 5 Episode 19: The USSR/How Revolutions Go Wrong (ft. Varn, Deep Stat...
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Season 5 Episode 17: Matt McManus on Matt Walsh + A Dialogue w/Christine Sypnowi...
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Season 5 Episode 16: Lillian Cicerchia on Marx, Materialism, and the Poverty of...
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Season 5 Episode 15: Happy May Day & Goodbye to Tucker Carlson
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Season 5 Episode 14: The Philosophy of Dinesh D'Souza (ft. Victor Bruzzone & Eth...
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Season 5 Episode 13: Being, Time and Hitler (Matt McManus on Heidegger)
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Season 5 Episode 12: Norman Finkelstein Came Here To Chew Bubblegum & Burn Bridg...
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Season 5 Episode 11: GTAA Has Always Been At War With Eurasia (Luke Savage on Ge...
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Season 5 Episode 10: The GTAA Labor Special (ft. RM Brown, Alex Press and José S...
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Season 5 Episode 9: The Gang Gets Their Thetan Levels Tested (Justin Clark on Sc...
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Season 5 Episode 8: Viva AMLO (ft. Kurt Hackbarth & Guest Host David Griscom)
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Season 5 Episode 7: Ana Kasparian & RM Brown + Complete Texas Tech Debate w/Libe...
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Season 5 Episode 6: Aamon Hawk on "Yedolf"/Nick French on Analytic Philosophy (P...
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Season 5 Episode 5: Slavoj Zizek on Hegel, Marx, Ukraine, Political Correctness...
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Season 5 Episode 4: Why Socialists Need to Talk About Justice (ft. Lillian Cicer...
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Season 5 Episode 3: Sam Seder, Jason Myles & RM Brown
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Season 5 Episode 2: Glenn Greenwald Debate/Marx's Theory of History (ft. Harvey...
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Season 5 Premiere: Krystal Ball & RM Brown
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Season 4 Finale: Matt McManus on John Stuart Mill + Deep State Kuba on Red Drehe...
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Season 4 Episode 18: G.A. Cohen, Ben Shapiro, and the Men from Mars (ft. Adnan H...
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Season 4 Episode 17: Harvey J. Kaye on the British Marxist Historians
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Season 4 Episode 16: Leftist Election Punditry w/Ross Barkan & Ryan Zickgraf
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Season 4 Episode 15: Ana Kasparian Breaks Down Her Debate w/Dennis Prager
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Season 4 Episode 14: Talking Socialism w/Matt Bruenig
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Season 4 Episode 13: Debunking NatCons, Watching Ana Debate Prager & Lula Livre...
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Season 4 Episode 12: Postmodernity + Prager U (ft. Matt McManus)
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Season 4 Episode 11: Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich w/Micah Uetricht
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Season 4 Episode 10: Debating Sohrab Ahmari on Social Democracy w/Right-Wing Cha...
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Season 4 Episode 9: Ben Shapiro vs History + William Paris on Utopianism (+ Poli...
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Season 4 Episode 8: Ana Kasparian on Abortion, Crime, Poverty & More
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Season 4 Episode 7: Rick Perlstein (+ Sean Hannity Thinks You Should Work 90 Hou...
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Season 4 Episode 6: Doomerism, Dead Punditry & Debunking Jordan Peterson (ft. Ad...
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Season 4 Episode 5: Let's Talk About Adorno (ft. Charles Wofford) (+ Remembering...
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Season 4 Episode 4: It's Toasted! (Shaun Richman on Mad Men + Who Funds Project...
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FULL DEBATE! Ben Burgis vs. James O'Keefe, Tulis Gabbard & Tim Pool at the Beaco...
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Season 4 Episode 3: James O'Keefe Smears Ben + Marx's Theory of History (ft. Adn...
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Season 4 Episode 2: Let's Talk About Tulsi, Tim & James (ft. Matt Lech)
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Season 4 Episode 1: Tim Pool's Trolley Problem + A Free Will Debate w/Ryan Lake...
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Season 3 Finale - The Return of Sam Seder
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